What is the purpose of this course ? What is the target audience ? Are
there any prior learnings ? What are the desired learning outcomes ?
Are you doing this to just give students a feel for code cutting ? Do
you want to teach a language that is in demand ? ( maybe this is not a
consideration re: FORTRAN)
If you are trying to prepare people for a life as code cutters in the
real world and a requirement is that thay be oo code cutters then C++ is
the go. My experience with programmers is that if they can get their
head around the oo concepts(polymorphism indeed) and they write some
reasonable stuff in C++ then they can make the jump to perl PHP et al
without much trouble.
People I talk to in the industry go "Py what" every time I mention
Python.
just my $00.02 worth.
Peter
Geoffrey Robertson wrote:
>
> I'm currently preparing a 1 semester programming course for
> beginners. (on Linux) And I'm in a quandary as to what
> to teach.
>
> The previous two semesters I've taught 9 weeks of C followed by
> a 9 week mish mash of Perl, PerlTk, Fortran, C++, Python, whatever.
> see:
> http://slug.org.au/tafe2000.shtml
>
> Next semester I'm thinking of teaching 9 weeks of C++ and 9 weeks of
> Python. For a change. I'll be learning as I teach.
>
> Which should I teach first, Python or C++ ?
>
> Neither? what then?
>
> If any one has suggestions as to where th e best place to start
> learning to program is I'd be interested in your comments.
>
> geoffrey
>
> --
> SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
> More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
